le /
noun

Meanings

  1. 1 (in 饸饹) pressed buckwheat or sorghum noodles

Examples

HSK 7-9
Hé le shì běifāng yǒumíng de xiǎochī.
Hele noodles are a famous northern snack.
HSK 7-9
Zhè jiā fànguǎn de hé le tèbié jīndao hǎochī.
This restaurant's hele noodles are especially chewy and good.

Tips

usage
In its everyday use is read toneless le, only as the second syllable of 饸饹, a northern pressed noodle. A separate, much rarer reading gē appears in the snack name 饹馇.

Components

radical
shí
food; to eat
The side-form food radical , a compressed , marks as something edible, the same radical found in rice and flatbread.
phonetic
each; every
Right is , the phonetic. It points more clearly to the gē reading; in the common word 饸饹 it has weakened to a toneless le.

Stroke Order

le